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Board adopts change to water-supply rules; public commenter warns of farmland loss
Summary
Utah County adopted an amendment to Land Use Ordinance §36-3 that lowers irrigation-exception requirements to 0.85 acre-foot per acre for qualifying subdivisions and raises the uncultivable-land threshold to 45%; public comment included warnings about irrigation-driven farmland loss and debate about aquifer impacts.
The Utah County Board of Commissioners voted to adopt an amendment to Utah County Land Use Ordinance section 36-3 that changes the criteria for an exception to standard irrigation requirements for subdivisions.
Community development staffer Brandon Larson told the commission the amendment grew from a specific applicant’s request. The earlier exception had allowed a reduction from 1.5 acre-feet per acre to 1.0 acre-foot; the applicant returned seeking an exception to 0.85 acre-foot per acre and proposed increasing the proportion of uncultivable land required to qualify for that exception from 35% to 45%, which staff and the planning commission…
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